Answer:The following are poem is similar to “O Captain! My Captain!” in that it is also a dirge or elegy. As you read the poem, compare it to Whitman’s poem, concentrating on why certain choices were made (length, word choice, placement, etc.). Annotate the poem and then write a short response to each of the questions. Type your annotations: First Stanza: The author Is asking a lot of questions on why did J.F.K die. Mourners are looking to heaven for an answer but heaven.Second Stanza: The author is talking about how to remember a person after their death and that the memory of J.F.K lives on within the living.Third Stanza: Talks about the same thing as the second. Last Stanza: Consists of the author accepting the emotions that are surrounded/come with death.Elegy for JFK By W.H. Auden Why then? Why there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us.
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